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Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech"
Winston Churchill--an iron curtain had descended across East and West Europe, separating Western democracies from Eastern, Communist countries; warned Americans of future conflict with USSR -
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Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology. Showed US stance against communism -
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Marshall Plan
Introduced by Secretary of State George G. Marshall in 1947. Proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism. -
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Berlin Blockade
The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift. -
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Creation of NATO
Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. direct response to berlin blockad -
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Korean War
The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea, while the communists helped North Korea -
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Vietnam War
war between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States. Conflict between Communism and Capitalism -
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JFK becomes President
He created plans to overthrow the Cuban government, which failed when Khruschchev finds out; Tensions increase -
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
A nine-year conflict involving Soviet forces supporting the Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan government against the Mujahideen resistance. -
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin wall taken down; Beginning of the fall of communism and the Soviet Union - symbolized the failure of communism and massive socialism